Thursday, Senator Lindsey Graham had been the Republican lion of the hearing, indicting Democrats for the moral atrocity they had deceitfully and dishonorably perpetrated against the judge.

By Friday, our Cicero was reaching out in collegiality to the same senators he was castigating 24 hours before.

Falwell’s point: Democrats fight savagely and for keeps while Republicans—street fighter Trump excepted—are wimps, bewailing any loss of camaraderie with their colleagues across the aisle.

Yet the stakes here are immense. Consider how the Supreme Court has remade the America we grew up in.

Since World War II, the court has de-Christianized all public schools and the public life of a land Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman called a “Christian nation.” It has established secularism as our state religion.

Despite civil right laws declaring race discrimination illegal, the court has given its blessing to affirmative action, deliberate discrimination in favor of peoples of color against white men in the name of diversity and equality.

The court has declared that what were once crimes, abortion and homosexuality, are now constitutional rights all Americans must respect.

These changes were not legislated democratically but imposed dictatorially. While a Senate confirmation of Kavanaugh would not reverse these mandated changes, it might halt any further imposition of this radical social revolution by unelected judges.

But while the Democratic left, understanding the stakes, is fighting bare-fisted, Republicans are sparring with 14-ounce gloves and seeking to observe Marquess of Queensberry Rules.

In other ways as well, America has been remade.

Not only has Christianity, and all its symbols and expressions of faith and belief, been removed, but a purge is underway of monuments and statues of the explorers, colonists, and statesmen who, believing in the superiority of their religion, culture, and civilization, set out to create the country we inherited.

William Frey, resident demographer at the Brookings Institution, writes about how America is being changed—without the consent of the people:

Since 2000, the white population under the age of 18 has shrunk by seven million, and declines are projected among white 20-somethings and 30-somethings over the next two decades and beyond. This is…a trend that is not likely to change despite Mr. Trump’s wish for more immigrants from Norway.

The likely source of future gains among the nation’s population of children, teenagers and young working adults is minorities—Hispanics, Asians, blacks and others.

When we are all minorities and all behave as minorities, making our separate demands upon the country, what then holds America together?

In Federalist 2, John Jay famously wrote:

Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion…very similar in their manners and customs….

This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.

Yet each decade, less and less are we descended from the same ancestors. Less and less do we speak the same language, profess the same religion, share the same manners, customs, traditions, history, heroes, and holidays.

Does America look today like the “band of brethren united to each other” of which Jay wrote and we seemed to be as late as 1960?

Or does not the acrimony attendant to the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh suggest that we have already become a land “split into a number of unsocial, jealous and alien sovereignties”?

With all our new diversity, whatever became of our unity?

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of a new book, Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever. To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.

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Thank you for The Beatitudes. My favorite passage from Matthew, along with this, in the separation of the sheep from the goats;

For I was hungry/and you gave me food to eat;
I was thirsty/and you gave me drink;
I was a stranger/and you took me in;
I was naked/and you clothed me;
I was sick/and you visited me;
I was in prison/ and you came to me.

A few years ago the great writer Marilynne Robinson said something like, “For Christ said I was hungry and you fed me, not I was hungry and you fed me as long as it didn’t interfere with free-market principles and 2nd amendment rights and stand-your-ground laws”.

I understand the very real concern about the decline of Christianity in this country, but wasn’t there wisdom in the Founding Fathers recognizing that having a state religion actually CHEAPENS religion, and that religion is actually strengthened by a separation of church and state? Of course that might be contradicted by current trends, but I always thought it was give to Caesar what is Caesar’s…And I think in taking such care to make the Constitution a more-or-less religiously neutral document, they were responding to some very real conflicts between competing religious sects in the original colonies.

Buchanan is a disappointment here. Does he not see that the hearings have little to do with the allegations and everything to do with the way Kavanaugh has reacted to them? When the allegations were first made Kavanaugh knew if they were true or not. If false he would have immediately asked for an investigation, preferably by the FBI. But he did not. Instead he panicked. As an Appleate Court Judge, he went on Fox News, to a TV Court, hoping for public exoneration. He nearly broke down at the suffering he had endured. On the day of the hearings he did not even take the time to listen to his accuser and came out all guns blazing partisan baloney. He claimed he had been put through an ordeal that no man should suffer. But what was the ordeal, if not one of his own making? Was he somehow entitled to be handed a seat on the SCOTUS? Buchanan can usually see through these histrionics. But he missed on this one. Instead he tells us about John Jay and the Federalist Papers.

“And then the Sermon on the Mount. Who are you worship? Jesus or Donald Trump/Falwell.jr.? ”
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Well as a Christian, hopefully I worship Our Lord, but as you’re familiar with scripture, you also know that God sometimes chooses people for His purpose, folks who the “righteous” would never pick if it were up to them. The Bible is full of prostitutes, tax collectors, adulterers, unbelievers, etc. whom God was able to use to fulfill His purposes.
He can write straight using crooked lines or broken people if He chooses to.

American nationalists look to the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court for inspiration, while cosmopolitan liberals base their worldview on a blackmail contract crafted by the Pasha of the Barbary pirates.

Pat starts out fine but then veers off into the usual detailing of a train wreck. Yes, we know the US has become a foreign country, and indeed yes some of us would like it to stop. And yes, if Republicans are all that stand between us and a deeper descent into barbarism, then get out the horned helmets and leather loincloths. Game over.

But what I wanted Pat to answer is why the Republicans are such cowards. (And why Senator Flake always look like he just stepped out of a Dostoevsky novel. Why the haunted, close to suicidal eyes? This is the guy we want battling for us? He looks like he can barely stand to be alive)

Here is my theory: that the Repubs down deep believe the liberals and progressives are right about them–that they are mean, bigoted, on the wrong side of history bastards. Having spent most of their lives in DC, they have ingested and become DC Which is why, when push comes to shove, they motion to a Democrat “colleague, huddle behind a curtain, then reemerge to say what the colleague says.

Alas, a conservative right will not emerge in these Disunited States until the Republican Party roasts on an open fire.

It won’t happen, but I’d love to see Trump veto the Spending Bill and offer, as a justification, that it finances most of what Jeff Flake believes in, and nothing (the Wall!) that Flake doesn’t believe in.

Pat you forgot another wimpy move by the Committee Republicans. They were afraid to have Kavanaugh questioned by a real prosecutor. His, I’m just a poor altar boy being attacked by the Clintons doesn’t play well with people who can think. The committee members slobbering all over Kavanaugh only made him seem more unbelievable. Only a person with real drinking problems says stupid things like, I drank several beers at times but never, never lost control and remember absolutely everything I did not only the next day but even today. That’s a person with either real drinking issues or someone who is lying.

But then I don’t think that matters to you Pat. This is just another them vs us contest and not anything important like having a credible, well adjusted Supreme Court Justice.

Pat look in the mirror you are the wimp just sitting on the sidelines yelling at the people who are not as wimpy as you and ran for office and won to be on the Committee.

To me the Democrats are the evil party and the Republicans are the stupid party, this is why the establishment loves today’s two party system. It’s also why I’m a Independent who holds the establishment in contempt, I hope there will be a credible Independent/third party candidate for U.S. President on the California ballot in 2020.

I served as a medical corpsman in Vietnam, but at least I saw war. When the VFW disregarded this historical legacy of the ideal of shared sacrifice and allowed President Bone Spurs to address its convention. I almost cringed what that said about how far our country has drifted from the cherished ideal of the citizen/soldier of the Second World War. President Trump is in a long line of baby boomer presidents who avoided the central issue of its generation, the Vietnam War, and if one wants to look at how corrupt our institutions have become, this is an object lesson in the moral rot inside the beltway bubble and the body politic in the country. Come on, Pat, Trump isn’t really a street fighter, he is a poseur mimicking manly civic virtues just as Clinton, GWB, and Obama have along with most civilians who have never seen the real tragedy of war. And for all his bellicose rhetoric so did Pat Buchanan while serving as a speech writer for his boss Richard Nixon. Buchanan can talk the talk, but he has never had to walk the walk. The process of the Balkinization of our society, one of Buchanan’s central themes, began during the Vietnam War where the bitter harvest in its seeds have sprouted in our culture wars. For all his insights in what is wrong with our country, he seems to be myopic exactly how got to this Inflection point in our decline as a nation.

“Since World War II, the court has de-Christianized all public schools and the public life of a land Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman called a “Christian nation.” It has established secularism as our state religion.”

So Pat, if we are to allow Christianity back in the schools, which religion do you suggest the schools accept an emphasize?

Mormon? Jehovah’s Witnesses? Christian Science? Unification-Moonies? Adventism? Armstrongism? The New Apostolic Reformation – the 7 Mountains theology cult dominated by Republicans? John Hagee’s type of Christianity so we can deny Jesus and idolize Zionists? New Age? Catholicism? Oneness Pentecostal? Scientology? British Israelism? Norman Vincent Peale’s Positive Thinking? Christian Reconstruction? Calvinism? Word of Faith-Prosperity Gospel? What do you think would be the one?

Senator Flake is willing to put up with the wrath of the neocon Republicans to determine the truth. I seem to remember reading in the Bible where another was willing to be abused and sacrificed for the truth.

I have tried a number of times to listen to jerry. He has his own tv station here locally now. I think he can sing exceptionally well. I would say that more than half the time I flip over to see jerry, and he is there, that he is trying to sell something. Indulgences? No, that was the catholics. Right? Whatever it was I expect jesus would have been glad to endorse what jerry was selling, if jesus was around today. Not like when he tossed the sellers and politics out of the temple before. The passion of christ, and the reason he was crucified has truelly been lost to demonic sophistry thouroughly entrenched in the church now that it has become a tax free political special interest group. So it goes.
The hypocrisy of the evangelical support for a man like the don, and the dismissal of allegations from a women claiming to have been taken advantage of by their man for the supreme court, really does fit together quite well.”These are really evil people.” Yepper. All conservatives, well, those calling themselves conservatives, can stand by their man simply by claiming the allegations against don the philanderers pick for supreme court are the evil ones. Everybody knows who the evil ones are. In facts. Outside of known facts we can just call anybody that disagrees with our righteousness as being evil people. But, the means justify revelations ends, so those who actually do vote, will vote to keep the anti-christians in power. The judge accused of abusing a woman will be appointed, and the righteous leader will stand and pump his white power fist for a second term. If republicans are proud of their accomplishments, why would anyone try to dissuade them from their pride?

Dreher has gone completely insane, Van Buren and the other “deep state!” types are taking over, and Pat should really just come out and call himself a white nationalist. TAC really only seems to excel when Democrats are in power.

– A Supreme Court confirmation is not a trial, but a character assessment.
– Christine Ford’s credible testimony is enough to raise serious doubts about Kavanaugh’s character.
– Kavanaugh’s behavior under pressure has been that of a partisan operative, not an impartial, temperate jurist. His lack of candor, if not outright perjury, has in itself been disqualifying as well.

I’m personally not that worked up about Trump nominating someone with a conservative judicial philosophy, even someone who might support reversing Roe v Wade. But Kavanaugh specifically is a poor choice for the Supreme Court, and Republicans/Conservatives insisting otherwise are choosing a horrendous hill to die on.

For God’s sake, calling the FBI should have been the FIRST thing to do when the allegations surfaced. No drama. Just turn it over to professional investigators, instead of letting be fodder for peoople whose expertise is watching cop shows. Do not offer a melodrama on national TV, with everyone dying at the end.

And when asked “We are waiting the results of the investigation”

And when the results come in there are two outcomes

1) He is found innocent. Time NOW to rant and rave about political persecution.

2) He is found guilty. Sigh deeply, glad that this came up BEFORE a vote that would embarrass you when the gory details came out. And then ask for another conservative judge – there are plenty more where Kavanaugh came from.

“I tried to comment somewhere it seems odd that the same folk who want to legalize every sort of narcotic now hold up beer drinking as a vice. But my earlier comment disappeared into cyberspace.”

Laughing

advocating the use of narcotics is mild compared to the agenda. But democrats are skilled at using the virtues to guilt and corner those of us that would actually seek to embrace the virtues they have spent the last fifty years denigrating.

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As for Mr. Larison’s article, there are some real problems, many of the reference material was about lieing and provided no evidence of the same.

The articles that actually attempted to make a case for lieing were really articles about what others thought about Justice Kavenaugh’s answers regarding issues about security policies and the supreme court or democratic emails all of which had plenty of room for interpretation. In the end there wasn’t much meat. A lot of maneuvering to entrapment.

The problem for the democrats will always be the Libya investigation and the issues regarding security breaches via emails and servers. And while they are attempting a tit for tat game here — it simply does not measure up.

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“Christianity as its guiding light…that too is a good thing. The world has changed; the US has multiple ethnic and religious groups; and there is no point in having a clash of religious beliefs to further polarize the country.”

If you don’t think the country has a history of clashes over the matters of faith among other ideological and tangible issues, I would encourage a revisit to a standard history text. It was once standard fair that there were two issues that were off limits in polite company: religion and politics. The reality bhas been that the country up uintil the 1960’s actually handled most of it ideological diffetrences without seeking the other’s destruction. But by and large with stark exceptions, we have managed with our differences in tact. The polarization occurring now is the silencing of people of faith period from engaging in political expression —

it is tragic the loss of a christian face, despite the imperfection — nothing good about it. Oddly enough, its liberals who are forever challenging people of faith to be christ-like, despite their constant attacks against christ’s full spectrum ethics.

Mr Buchannan is becoming the Pat Robinson of politics. The GOP is in this mess precisely because they were ‘real men’. Stuffing Garland and attempting to ram a rank partisan through to confirmation was the height of Hubris. They are lately finding they over-reached. If you trample on norms and regular order, you need to be prepared to face consequences.

I liked the start of the article. Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski-all are fake Republicans. They look out for their own interests and vote whichever way the wind blows. They are the weakest links in the Republican party right now. They are wimps.

But then Pat goes all “Let’s make America white again.” Sorry, Pat, not gonna happen. The 1950’s are gone forever. The best we can do now is try to encourage patriotism and love of our country, because America has been the best, most free nation on the planet since it was established and it still remains so, no matter what the trust-fund liberals would have us believe.

Obama… (who savaged him for 8yrs, blocked most of his initial plans and falsely accused him of a host of things… not any liberals… all nice white christian “wimpy” GOPers)

Merrick Garland… Merrick Garland…

David French… (who savaged him and sent him death threats etc? not any liberals… more likely “wimpy” GOPers)

Christine Blasey Ford… (who’s harrassing her and her family and sending death threats etc? not any liberals/progressives… more likely a bunch of wimpy, religious right GOPers)

And that’s a very short list to start with… you whining GOPer’s, in almost complete control of this country’s gov and state govs, able to sway millions on a dime with your propaganda, but always crying “Persecution”! – you make me, a fairly conservative, centrist on many issues, sick and disgusted. Take responsibility for your half (or more) of the partisan rot you’ve inflicted on this country with this kind of disingenuous whinging and blaming. You can be sure you’ll never get my vote with this kind of behavior.

“…The best we can do now is try to encourage patriotism and love of our country, because America has been the best, most free nation on the planet since it was established and it still remains so, no matter what the trust-fund liberals would have us believe.”
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I agree with your sentiments. It’s should never be about color & what divides us but about shared values & culture.

Jeff Flake is a RINO. Always has been.
His saying he would confirm Kavanaugh and then come out 30 min pause later to say only if there is another week of FBI investigation was only for effect. It was a punctuation on a lie. It was cheese bait in the trap and the Republicans fell for it because they care more about how things look than they are determined to do the right thing.
But I would love it if they put the confirmation of Kavanaugh on the November ticket. Conservatives would be lined up around the block to vote and the red tidal wave would shut Democrats completely up at least until they can come up with something to cry about. They have to stick with their strengths after all.

“Only a person with real drinking problems says stupid things like, I drank several beers at times but never, never lost control and remember absolutely everything I did not only the next day but even today. That’s a person with either real drinking issues or someone who is lying.”

My own experience suggests this is wrong. At one time I drank pretty heavily, but never did I forget anything, and only once did I pass out–and even then I didn’t forget anything.

OTOH, I didn’t start drinking until I was 27 years old, when my brain chemistry was more stabilized than a younger person’s. Despite that, it’s plausible that even a very drunk teenager can remember things. It probably depends on the quirks of individuals’ brain chemistry.